| Acknowledgements | 第1-5页 |
| 摘要 | 第5-7页 |
| ABSTRACT | 第7-9页 |
| Contents | 第9-11页 |
| List of Tables | 第11-12页 |
| Chapter One Introduction | 第12-16页 |
| ·Research Motivation | 第12-13页 |
| ·Research Objectives | 第13-14页 |
| ·The Organization of This Paper | 第14-16页 |
| Chapter Two Literature Review | 第16-36页 |
| ·Defining Reporting, Reporting That-clause, Reporting Verbs and Stance | 第16-23页 |
| ·Defining reporting and reporting that-clause | 第16-19页 |
| ·Defining the reporting verbs and its source | 第19-21页 |
| ·Defining the stance | 第21-23页 |
| ·Previous Works of Reporting Clause and Stance | 第23-36页 |
| ·Previous works on reporting clause | 第23-31页 |
| ·Previous works on reporting verbs | 第25-27页 |
| ·Studies of reporting verbs in domestic | 第27-28页 |
| ·Previous work of citation | 第28-31页 |
| ·Previous works on stance construction | 第31-36页 |
| Chapter Three Methodology | 第36-42页 |
| ·The Construction of IRC and PGSC | 第36-37页 |
| ·Research Tools | 第37-38页 |
| ·Software of Antconc | 第37页 |
| ·Data processing software | 第37-38页 |
| ·Research Procedures | 第38-42页 |
| Chapter Four Research Findings | 第42-64页 |
| ·Data Analysis and Discussion | 第42-62页 |
| ·Analysis of reporting verbs in reporting clause | 第42-62页 |
| ·Frequency of Reporting-that Clause | 第42-43页 |
| ·Categorization of reporting verbs | 第43-47页 |
| ·Detailed analysis of ‘Argue’ group of reporting verbs | 第47-53页 |
| ·Other reporting verbs in this group | 第53-57页 |
| ·The anslysis of Show/Find group of reporting verbs | 第57-60页 |
| ·The Think group of reporting verbs | 第60-62页 |
| ·Discussion | 第62-64页 |
| ·Causes of different uses of reporting verbs | 第62-63页 |
| ·Causes of different stance constructed | 第63-64页 |
| Chapter Five Conclusion | 第64-68页 |
| ·Summary of the Research | 第64-65页 |
| ·Significance of This Research | 第65页 |
| ·Limitations of This Research | 第65-68页 |
| Bibliography | 第68-72页 |
| 攻读学位期间发表的学术论文目录 | 第72-73页 |
